Brexit means British workers can now demand proper market rates for the vital jobs they do and decent bosses will have to pay – as shroud-waving employers campaign for the return of cut-price EU labour

Daily Mail ^ | 10/02/2021 | David Jones

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The Germans could scarcely conceal their delight. According to Olaf Scholz, the socialist poised to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany, we can blame the shortage of lorry drivers, our half-empty supermarkets and closed petrol stations squarely at the feet of Brexit.

Some might describe this as 'schadenfreude' – taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. It is, of course, a German word.

But Herr Scholz's assessment is shared by a troubling number of people in Britain. People who should know better.

Wherever we look, captains of industry are demanding we reopen our gates to the cheap foreign labour that has done so much damage to our self-reliance.

In this, the bosses have been aided by a Labour Party that instead of seizing the chance to get better pay for home-grown workers, is turning its back on them and demanding the return of the EU's free movement of people. Never mind the ruinous long-term consequences.

Chief among the apologists for a low-wage economy is Rod McKenzie, the BBC executive turned managing director of the trucking industry's trade body, the Road Haulage Association.

Brexit, he says, made British-based Continental lorry drivers feel insecure in their jobs and made them think: 'Maybe Britain's not for us.' So they went.

Seventy per cent of the RHA's members wanted to leave the EU, yet McKenzie's association lobbied for the softest of soft Brexits with maximum rights for Polish and Bulgarian drivers to undercut our own.

Not that McKenzie's is a solitary voice. The Remain lobby is both angry and influential, even now. The fuel crisis is an all-too-useful shroud – and they are waving it with vigour.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Welcome to the New World Order where they return to Lords and Serfs. Funny thing is that they keep calling on Poles and Bulgarians to be Britain's version of Central Americans while the thousands of refugees they imported continue to sit on their butts and collect benefits. Who would have thought?

[higgmeister]

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.   We ask not your counsels or arms.   Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.   May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

― Samuel Adams

[Mr Radical]

The myth that the driver shortage in the UK was caused by the drivers going back to Poland has already been dubunked - courtesy the very same Daily Fail:


PS it was interesting to read that Rod McKenzie, formerly BBC executive, is now managing director of the [British] Road Haulage Association. A case of revolving doors/jobs for the boys for these Commies who rule over us!

[Cronos]

I don’t know where they got those numbers. In Poland there isn’t a lack of hgv drivers.

[Mr Radical]

I concur; some bureaucrat probably gets paid an awful lot of money to make the numbers up.